[PATCH 3/9 v7] Introduce target_{stop,continue}_ptid

Pedro Alves palves@redhat.com
Fri Sep 12 18:19:00 GMT 2014


On 09/12/2014 07:08 PM, Doug Evans wrote:

> And I remembered you saying:
> 
>  > I just now noticed the elephant in the room -- target_stop is
>  > asynchronous, doesn't wait for a stop, while and target_stop_ptid
>  > is synchronous.  [...]
> 
> If the above code is right, I think a clarifying comment
> is required somewhere.  It's odd that one can call agent_run_command
> when the inferior may or may not be stopped yet.
> [Or is there a bug here? - if I'm reading the gdbserver version
> correctly it first waits for the inferior to stop]

It's a bug.

(Note that the GDB side interfaces with an out-of-tree
agent, not GDBserver's agent.  I don't know the status of
that agent.)

Thanks,
Pedro Alves



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